Method of forming coated steel sheet
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsShizuo Kimura, Shiro Kamiyama, Kensaku Fujita
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Abstract
A method for forming a container half (10) from a coated steel sheet (21) is provided. Because a first planar part (27) at an outer peripheral part of a first formed body (26) provided through a first drawing step is held by a blank holder (33) during its bending to provide an L-shaped cross-section part (36) in a second drawing step, no wrinkles will develop at a vertical part (38). Because an unnecessary outer part (44) of a flange part (46) is cut off in a trimming step, the width of the flange part is narrowed. By virtue of the narrowed width, no wrinkles will develop during bending of the flange part.
Claims3
A method of forming a container half from a coated steel sheet, comprising:
- a step of providing a planar steel sheet with coatings applied to at least one side thereof;
- a first drawing step of drawing a central part of the steel sheet, with an outer peripheral part of the steel sheet held by a first blank holder, to produce a first formed body having a first planar part formed at the outer peripheral part;
- a second drawing step of drawing the first formed body, said second forming step including holding an outer peripheral edge part of the first planar part with a second blank holder while forming an inner part of the first planar part into an L-shape in cross section including a horizontal part and a vertical part, so as to produce a second formed body with a second planar part disposed outwardly from and extending from a lower end of the vertical part of the L-shaped part;
- a trimming step of trimming off an unnecessary outer part of the second planar part to thereby produce a third formed body having a flange part comprised of that part of the second planar part which remained after the trimming-off of the unnecessary outer part;
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- a bending step of bending the flange part such that the flange part becomes flush with the vertical part of the L-shaped part.
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